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OK, So Google Can Still Do A Lot Of Super Cool Things

Kiss, kiss…I can’t stay mad at the big Internet lug for too long. I mean it’s “the Google,” after all, as he’s called at my house. I even got carried away enough to turn Buzz back on just for Twitter feeds.

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Google Street View Takes You Inside the Olympics (via Snowmobile)

Google Street View has civilization well covered, but what about the great outdoors? Street View now travels via snowmobile in the unpaved Canadian wilderness, just in time for the winter games.

Says Google, 

In time for the Olympic Games in Vancouver and Whistler, we’re thrilled to be bringing this view to the world through Street View on Google Maps. How were we able to gather imagery at 7,000 feet (2,000 meters)? The Street View team’s constant experimenting yielded a snowmobile decked out with cameras to capture slope-level imagery of several runs on Whistler Blackcomb Mountains…
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Top 7 Lines From Movies You May Not Know Were Improv

This site has some really interesting and entertaining clips from the movies listed below. Although many of these are the most famous lines associated with the movies, they were done improv. See if you can guess which lines were improv’d before watching the video clips.

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Scriptwriting isn’t easy. Some people spend months trying to perfect a specific scene, trying to write that perfect line that sticks in the mind of those who hear it. Then these guys come along and do it off the top of their heads.

7. The Silence of the Lambs

6. Taxi Driver

5. The Shining

4. Casablanca

3. A Clockwork Orange
2. Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Online Christmas 101 - From Classic Stop-Action Animation To Christmas ‘Abominations’

I am a Christmas freak-a-zoid, and this site I came across this morning is AWESOME! It has links to cartoons, movies, music videos, commercials, and more - all things Christmas at the click of a mouse.

Be sure not to miss the classics like Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and another of my personal faves, 'The Year Without A Santa Claus.' Heat Miser and Cold M... read more

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Watch 101 Classic Christmas Videos Online

The Essentials
Stop-Motion Animation (Claymation)
Versions of ‘A Christmas Carol’
Miscellaneous Specials & Documentaries
The Commercials
The Parodies, Sketches & Spoofs
The Abominations
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A Christmas Carol

Now that we are officially beyond Thanksgiving, many of us now face that slippery slope to Christmas. One of my favorite Christmas stories of all time is A Christmas Carol, and I was curious how many different versions have been made over the years. My personal favorite is the George C. Scott version from 1984.

As it turns out, there have been at least 13 ve... read more

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Scrooge Musical
A Christmas Carol
Mickey's Christmas Carol
Scrooge (1970) -
A Christmas Carol (1982) -
Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983) -
A Christmas Carol (1999) -
A Christmas Carol (1984) -
The Stingiest Man in Town (1978) -
A Christmas Carol (1971) -
A Christmas Carol (1954) -
Scrooge (1951) -
A Christmas Carol (1938) -
Scrooge (1935) -
A Christmas Carol (1910) -
Bah Humbug Scrooge
Bob Cratchit
Scrooge's Grave
Redeemed Scrooge
Clerk Scrooge
Haunted Knocker
Ghost of Christmas Past
Nephew Fred
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I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me.  May it haunt their houses pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it.
Their faithful Friend and Servant,
C. D.
December, 1843.Read more at www.stormfax.com